The Plant Journal

Here are some of the most recent special and virtual issues from the journal:

April 2012 Special Issue
High-Resolution Measurements in Plant Biology

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Celebrating 20 Years of The Plant Journal
Browse through the PDF booklet of abstracts below:

Special issues from The Plant Journal:

• The Plant Genome: An Evolutionary View on Structure and Function
• Arabidopsis: A rich harvest 10 years after completion of the genome sequence
• Harnessing Plant Biomass for Biofuels and Biomaterials

• In the news: Fine-Tuning a Tart Grape
Read the press release from 29th March 2013
Read the article: Potassium transport in developing fleshy fruits: the grapevine inward K+ channel VvK1.2 is activated by CIPK–CBL complexes and induced in ripening berry flesh cells

• In the news: How the daffodil got its trumpet
Read the press release from 28th February 2013
Read the article: The corona of the daffodil Narcissus bulbocodium shares stamen-like identity and is distinct from the orthodox floral whorls

• New initiatives at The Plant Journal to better support the plant science community - Read the Editorial

• Thank you to reviewers.

• 2011 Impact Factor is 6.16 - ranked in the top 10 ISI Plant Science Category

• Average time from Submission to First Decision - 26days!

• Listen to recent podcasts from the journal

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Expanding the spectral palette of fluorescent proteins for the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Beth A. Rasala, Daniel J. Barrera, Jenny Ng, Thomas M. Plucinak, Julian N. Rosenberg, Donald P. Weeks, George A. Oyler, Todd C. Peterson, Farzad Haerizadeh and Stephen P. Mayfield

Generation of an artificial ring chromosome in Arabidopsis by Cre/LoxP-mediated recombination
Minoru Murata, Fukashi Shibata, Akiko Hironaka, Kazunari Kashihara, Satoru Fujimoto, Etsuko Yokota and Kiyotaka Nagaki

A ubiquitin carboxyl extension protein secreted from a plant-parasitic nematode Globodera rostochiensis is cleaved in planta to promote plant parasitism
Demosthenis Chronis, Shiyan Chen, Shunwen Lu, Tarek Hewezi, Sara C.D. Carpenter, Rosemary Loria, Thomas J. Baum and Xiaohong Wang